Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Renewal Fuel Program – Extension
Congress requires most domestic refineries to blend a certain amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels into the transportation fuels they produce.
Statutory Interpretation – CARES Act – Indian Tribe
In March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, 134 Stat. 281.
4th Amendment – Warrantless Entry – Exigent Circumstance
The Fourth Amendment ordinarily requires that police officers get a warrant before entering a home without permission.
Economic Recovery Act Violation – Separation of Powers
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two of the Nation’s leading sources of mortgage financing.
1st Amendment Violation
A public high school student used, and transmitted to her Snapchat friends, vulgar language and gestures criticizing both the school and the school’s cheerleading team.
Statutory Interpretation – 5th and 14th Amendments – Right to Access
A California regulation grants labor organizations a “right to take access” to an agricultural employer’s property in order to solicit support for unionization.
Securities-fraud Class Action – Class Certification
This case involves a securities-fraud class action filed by several pension funds against The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and three of its former executives (collectively, Goldman).
Sherman Antitrust Act – Immunity
In the Sherman Act, Congress tasked courts with enforcing a policy of competition on the belief that market forces “yield the best allocation” of the Nation’s resources.
Statutory Interpretation – Appointments Clause – Board Authority
The validity of a patent previously issued by the Patent and Trademark Office can be challenged before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an executive tribunal within the PTO.
Malicious Prosecution Action
This case is about the tort of malicious prosecution.
Divorce – Marital Settlement Agreement
Kathy Siech and Paul Schwab divorced in 1992.
Former Trump official working on Wisconsin election probe
A Republican attorney who worked in former President Donald Trump's administration and falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen in Wisconsin appears to have been hired to help with the taxpayer-funded investigation into how the election was run.
Legal News
- UW-Milwaukee chancellor to step down next year amid handling of Pro-Hamas protesters
- Wisconsin Republicans are improperly blocking conservation work, court says
- Man hurt when home in rural Wisconsin explodes has died, authorities say
- Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall
- Gov. Evers appoints Travis Maze as Jefferson County Sheriff
- Democrat Dora Drake wins open seat in Wisconsin state Senate
- Wisconsin joins coalition urging Supreme Court to uphold federal ghost gun regulations
- GM will pay $146 million in penalties because 5.9 million older vehicles emit excess carbon dioxide
- NFL is liable for $4,707,259,944.64 in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case
- Milwaukee Police investigating fatal downtown crash
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies